RELEVANCE: A review of and a framework for the thinking on the notion in information science

Tefko Saracevic

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975, vol. 26, issue 6, 321-343

Abstract: Information science emerged as the third subject, along with logic and philosophy, to deal with relevance‐an elusive, human notion. The concern with relevance, as a key notion in information science, is traced to the problems of scientific communication. Relevance is considered as a measure of the effectiveness of a contact between a source and a destination in a communication process. The different views of relevance that emerged are interpreted and related within a framework of communication of knowledge. Different views arose because relevance was considered at a number of different points in the process of knowledge communication. It is suggested that there exists an interlocking, interplaying cycle of various systems of relevances.

Date: 1975
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